Chinese Triangle

A freeware AmigaBASIC game created by Russell Mason in 1991, this triangle puzzle, also called the golf tee game (or more modernly the Cracker Barrel Tee game, Hi-Q or Peg Solitaire), has a history that goes back to the court of Louis XIV and beyond and challenges you to jump one peg over the other and removed the jumped peg, remove all but one of the pegs and you win. Place a peg in each of the holes of the game board. You’ll have one place on the board that won’t have a peg.

Jump one peg over another to an open space and remove the one that was jumped. Keep doing this until only a single peg remains.

If you are successful and leave only one peg, you are a “genius.”

Leave two pegs, and you’re “pretty smart.”

Leave three pegs, and you are just plain “dumb.”

But leave four pegs, and sorry, but you are an “EQ-NO-RA-MOOOSE.” (it’s all in good fun – no judgement here!)

In this version you can choose which peg is left empty, which can decrease or increase the complexity in ways that are surprising.